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reaching the toll-bar, there are pits on either side of the road, 

 entirely composed of Flints, some of which are much worn. 



The ground from Cirencester to Minety and round that 

 district is very flat. At Eow Hill, in the parish of Leigh, 

 2^ miles before reaching Cricklade, is a pit composed of — 



Soil. 



1ft. Oia. 



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Flint mixedVith Soil. 



Fine Flint Gravel, resting on Oxford Clay. 



I found, here some small, much worn and partly rounded pieces 

 of Stone, which on examination proved to be Millstone Grit, 

 Micaceous Old Eed, Quartz, Chert from Mountain Limestone, 

 Jasper, etc., and. I was informed that bones were sometimes 

 found in the gravel as large as a man's thigh. 



At Latton the Oolite Gravel is small, and is much used for 

 garden walks, but at Down Ampney it is coarser. 



At Maisey Hampton is a considerable quantity of Oolitic 

 Gravel, in which occur large masses of crystallised Carbonate 

 of Lime, from the Inferior Oolite, bored by Lithodomi; and 

 around there, on the surface of the land, are the N.D. pebbles, 

 which extend to Bibury. 



1. It will I think be seen from the description I have given 

 of the Gravels, and following the order in which I commenced 

 — That on the Western side of the Severn the Gravel is Quartz, 

 MiUstone Grit, Coal Measures, Coarse Granite, Syenites, Fhnts, 

 Greenstone, Gneiss, Chalk, etc.,* with the exception of a little 

 Oolite at Highnam. 



* As you approach May Hill and Malvern it is hardly met with. It occurs at 

 the Green, near the former, a considerable valley intervening, at an elevation 

 of 260 feet ; and at Haffield, near the latter, at a height of 247 feet. There is 

 a remarkable correspondence in the altitudes. At Glynch Mill, near Eastnor, 

 the Gravel is 252 feet above the sea ; at the Imperial Hotel, Malvern, 275, in 

 both of which Mammalian remains have been found. There is, however, a great 

 deal of sub-angular gravel and debris, the result, I believe, of meteoric abrasion 

 found at the foot of the Malverns, and running up their flanks to a considerable 

 elevation, which is a different character of gravel to that found near the Imperial 

 Hotel. 



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